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There are no compromises when it comes to PCI compliance. Every online retailer that accepts major credit cards, from the smallest back-bedroom merchant to Amazon.com, has to comply with the mandates of the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standard, also known as "PCI-DSS." PCI-DSS is a set of requirements instituted by the PCI Security Standar...

Daily Discount Coupons: Pay Dirt or Raw Deals? - Part 3 Somewhere in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I just know the owner of a certain day spa is rubbing her hands with glee. You see, on New Year's Day morning, as I was blearily checking my emails, I clicked on one of the many group buying sites to which I subscribe and saw an offer I simply coul...

The United States is developing and deploying covert communications systems intended to be used by dissidents in countries Washington deems have repressive governments, according to the U.S. State Department The projects are not clandestine, State Department spokesperson Harry Edwards told TechNewsWorld. However, it's up to grant recipients to dete...

Facebook is still on its way to 700 millions users, with 687 million actives at the start of June, according to a report by Inside Facebook, which provides analysis of the social networking giant. The trend in the last year shows a new-user influx from countries in the early stages of Facebook adoption, including India, Brazil and Egypt. Overall, ...

Pandora, an Internet music service, is scheduled to begin trading shares in an initial public offering on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "P." Last week, the company ramped up its plans, increasing its IPO price range by at least a third and boosting the number of shares to be sold by as many as a million.

LightSquared's plans for launching a faster wireless network have been hampered by new government tests that show the broadband network could interfere with GPS systems The proposed wireless network, being developed by LightSquared, is supposed to be the fastest way yet to access a broadband network. Approved in January by the Federal Communication...

Spanish police announced Friday they have arrested the leaders of the Anonymous hacker group in that country They also claim to have found a server that coordinated and implemented computer attacks on government, financial and business websites worldwide, including the Sony's PlayStation Network, at the home of one of the trio....

For more than a decade, business-to-business firms have used the Internet to publicize their product catalogs. As a result of the rise in consumer sales on the Web and the rapid maturation and adoption of Internet technologies like Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0, B2B firms are now rethinking their e-business strategies. At the same time, t...

Apple and Microsoft are competitors, and while both companies are clearly more concerned with Google than each other at the moment, they serve as a great example of why good, well-funded marketing is important. Apple leads the world in the art of crafting perceptions. Though it has a market share that is near insignificant against Windows -- eve...

Both Houses of the Texas legislature have passed a bill that legislatively repeals a controversial regulation that has caused a great deal of concern to e-commerce vendors and to Web hosting companies. A state can only require a company to collect its sales tax if the company has a substantial physical presence ("nexus") in the state, because of ...

IBM researchers have demonstrated a graphene circuit which integrates all circuit components onto a single wafer made of silicon carbide Graphene is a mesh of carbon atoms that's one atom thick. Integrating it monolithically -- meaning in one unit -- with other materials is a problem researchers have been grappling with since 2004, when the materia...

Daily Discount Coupons: Pay Dirt or Raw Deals? - Part 2 Seen on the MarketSharing daily deal website recently: ...

More than 200,000 Citigroup bank accounts were hacked in last month, according to just-released data from the company, and federal regulations could tighten because of the security breach Details of the hack remain scarce. The bank says hackers probably accessed names, card numbers, addresses, and e-mail information. Social Security numbers and oth...

While much of the tech world was fixated on the news of Apple's new cloud strategy this week, Facebook users were discovering a new facial recognition feature on their network. This feature, which makes it easier to tag photos by spitting out names of people whose images it recognizes from previously posted photos, will probably be a welcome upgra...

Even as a long-time advocate for moving to cloud computing, I'm still surprised by the range of companies and nonprofit organizations making this move, and pleased to hear about the business benefits they are gaining from their decisions. An illustration of this growing movement is a series of webcast interviews I recently conducted of CXOs from a...

Marketo upgrades or somehow tweaks its revenue performance management application roughly every other month, but its latest release is special. Specifically, many of the features included in this release have been more than a year in the making, Gaurav Kotak, senior director of product marketing, told CRM Buyer. "This is more than just a six-week ...

There have been many changes in the market and technology since Citrix acquired XenSource and a major stewardship stake in the Xen open-source hypervisor four years ago Red Hat's 2008 Qumranet acquisition and subsequent push behind the Linux-integrated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor has added to the disruption. One thing, though, rem...

Android apps are becoming more popular as the Android operating system gains ground in the mobile market IDC expects Android to take more than 40 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the second half of 2011....

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that found Microsoft unlawfully infringed on i4i's document-editing patents by incorporating its technology in some of its Word products. The US$290 million penalty is small change for Microsoft, but the verdict could have more troubling implications for the company, as well as for fellow tech...

For 24 hours on Wednesday, 400-plus Internet companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft teamed up for a large-scale production test of the next-gen Internet protocol, IPv6. Organized by the Internet Society to raise awareness of the need for a global transition to the new Internet protocol, the test enabled participants to gather data about possible glitches...